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The two little lyrical and sumptuous gems are arrangements by Tchaikovsky of his own compositions : the Andante cantabile in B major based on the famous 2nd movement of his String Quartet No. 1 in D major Op. 11 and the Nocturne in D minor based on the piano piece of the same name in C sharp minor, No. 4 of Six Pieces Op. 19. Both arrangements were probably written in Paris in 1888 for his friend, the Russian cellist Anatoly Brandukov.
The current edition is based on the edition from the volume of the old Tchaikovsky Complete Edition published by Victor L. Kubacky (1891-1970), a pupil of Brandukov. Besetzung : cello and string orchestra op. 11 CW 348